Posted on 03/10/2014 9:37:15 PM PDT by Nachum
The whole world’s eyes are on the far east, wondering how a Boeing 777 can just disappear without a trace. Malaysia Air Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:43am this past Saturday morning and has yet to be located. Flying is the safest mode of transportation that exists today, so the disappearance of an airplane like this is really sobering.
I heard the following story firsthand from the travel agent involved. He is an avid DansDeals follower that I’m friends with. He sent me the unedited exchange that follows and I made the necessary edits to protect the privacy of the parties involved.
The saying goes, “More than the Jews have kept the Shabbos (Sabbath), the Shabbos has kept the Jews.” When I think of that saying, I picture my life if I were constantly wired 7 days a week. As it is, I feel like a slave to my digital devices, but the knowledge that Shabbos is right around the corner keeps me going. From sundown Friday evening until when the stars come out on Saturday night it’s 25 hours spent completely offline and it’s blissful. It’s 25 hours spent praying to G-d and consuming obscene amounts of calories eating scrumptious meals with family and friends. It’s perfect. Sure anyone can always disconnect, but there’s something awesome about the forced routine that can’t be properly explained to one who hasn’t experienced it.
But the saying goes much deeper than that in this story.
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On 01/13/14 Andy emailed his travel agent his desired itinerary:
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sheesh! this did not go the way i thought it would...
Amazing.
A VERRRY lucky man.
WOW absolutely amazing. This is one lucky man indeed
Wow. More than lucky. Blessed.
Blessed for sure..my mom is the same way won’t do any traveling on the sabbath believes it’s unlucky to do so
Baruch Hashem. Wow.
I was just given a Saturday flight and changed it to Friday too. Also from a Jew. Wonderful story for that man and his family.
Excellent story and thank God!
Good story BUT what happened to all the other pressing news about our potential for going to war against Iran or Russia or whomever? And those numerous scandals, they too have “gone off the radar”. And, is global warming worth an all night marathon senate session? Yes, American needs to be part of, or assist in the lost aircraft mystery but we DO have other issues to deal with as well.
Guess those additional issues are no longer newsworthy.
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